I looked at housing prices in SF going back to 1920, and the year over year increases are still in line with the annual increases we see today.<p>All the rhetoric and oddly empowering blame game to the tech industry (at least for us tech people) is merely trendy.<p>The only thing that stopped keeping up are salary increases.
I think sometimes there is a meme that if it's been said before, that’s proof that the complaint or worry is baseless and hysterical.<p>But this isn’t so.<p>Just because it's been said before doesn't make it untrue. San Francisco is in fact not an easy or great place for those with children but not wealth.
> Soaring housing costs, urban violence, shifting ethnic patterns and an increase in childless adults living together may be turning San Francisco, which the Chamber of Commerce likes to call ''everybody's favorite city,'' into a haven for the young, the old, the wealthy and the childless.<p>Love reading posts of old articles from the 80s and 90s. It's like nothing much has changed over the past 30 or so years. Except the average housing price has gone up from ~$100,000 to ~$1,000,000 (you know, cuz of inflation and stuff...)
Interesting bit:<p>>in 1970 the number of Hispanics was arrived at by a computer model that listed everyone with a Spanish surname as Hispanic<p>because census in 1970 did not allow differentiation Hispanics. It also probably means that decrease in whites from 70's to 80's is overstated.
What is the a good city now for mid-income childless ? More fun activities, concerts ect and low taxes that go to roads and public transport and not schools, parks and libraries.
Nice to see that 36 years later they're writing the same thing. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us/san-francisco-children.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us/san-francisco-children...</a> "San Francisco Asks: Where Have All the Children Gone?"
Cause I'm praying for rain
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom, please flush it all away.
I wanna see it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.<p>Originally meant for LA, but oddly applicable.
How do we get people to change something ominous yet moves slowly across generations? We're all afflicted with a short attention span and plenty of day-to-day problems, and we elect leaders to deal with the here and now.<p>This issue affects so many wicked problems, including how social systems respond to human-made environmental devastation.<p>Thankfully there are some leaders who will do the hard thing.
and then this piece lands: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us/san-francisco-children.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us/san-francisco-children...</a>